It should be no surprise to anyone to hear again from me that I regard Sweden as one of (if not the) most advanced countries in the world in terms of OPLAN development and deployment.  As is always the case, being ‘first’ sometimes carries its own penalties and Stokab, the open access fibre network in Stockholm which led the world by being 'first' over ten years ago, has certainly had some hurdles to overcome since then.  But last week I was in Stockholm with various supporters of the OPLAN Foundation and was impressed.  Here is something of what is going on....